To Do List: 5 events to celebrate Fourth of July

Music under the stars

Celebrate the Fourth early at Indy's oldest city park. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Garfield Park followed by fireworks. A Sun King beer garden opens at 7 p.m. garfieldparkindy.org. — Jennifer Morlan

Indy-Pendence Day Concert

ALT103 will host a concert fundraiser July 4 featuring Panic! At the Disco and New Politics on Georgia Street. Proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and St. Francis Patient Assistance Fund. $20, indypendenceday.com. — Maureen Gilmer

Old-fashioned Fourth

Do July 4 like your great-grandparents did at the home of the highest ranking Hoosier ever, Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd U.S. president, 1230 N. Delaware St. Play old-time games like nine pins, graces and something called hoops, which isn't basketball. It's free. Tour the house — that too is free. 1-4 p.m. presidentbenjaminharrison.org/site-links/contact-us. — Will Higgins

Independence Day

The movie, that is. Hotel Broad Ripple's Movies on the Lawn series features "Independence Day" on Wednesday at 8 p.m. The 1996 alien invasion is packed with action. "Now that's what I call a close encounter." Search Hotel Broad Ripple on Facebook for more. — Michelle Kwajafa

Fly for freedom

Feel free in great wide open of blue skies. Hot air ballon rides are part of Traders Point Creamery's Fourth of July weekend kick-off party 5-9 p.m. Friday, 9101 Moore Road, Zionsville. traderspointcreamery.com or call (317) 733-1700. — Liz Biro